Remembering Today 12/12/39 Sydney Warner, HMS Duchess

Discussion in 'The War at Sea' started by La-de-da-Gunner Graham, Dec 12, 2012.

  1. La-de-da-Gunner Graham

    La-de-da-Gunner Graham Senior Member

    Remembering today:
    Sidney Alfred Warner
    Able Seaman C/SSX18532
    Royal Navy, HMS Duchess
    Died: 12/12/1939
    Commemorated: Chatham Naval Memorial
    Son of Charles and Clara Warner, of Solihull, Warwickshire.

    :poppy: Remembered with honour.

    (Shown on CWGC as Alfred Sydney Warner, the above name is taken from the local war memorial at Solihull.)
     
  2. La-de-da-Gunner Graham

    La-de-da-Gunner Graham Senior Member

    Remembering today:
    Sidney Williams
    Petty Officer Supply
    C/M37881
    Royal Navy, HMS Duchess
    Died: 12/12/1939
    Commemorated: Chatham Naval Memorial

    :poppy: Remembered with honour.
     
  3. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Remembering today:
    Sidney Alfred Warner
    Able Seaman C/SSX18532
    Royal Navy, HMS Duchess
    Died: 12/12/1939
    Commemorated: Chatham Naval Memorial
    Son of Charles and Clara Warner, of Solihull, Warwickshire.

    Remembering today:
    Sidney Williams
    Petty Officer Supply
    C/M37881
    Royal Navy, HMS Duchess
    Died: 12/12/1939
    Commemorated: Chatham Naval Memorial


    Details of the above losses.

    12 December 1939

    9 Miles off the Mull Of Kintyre, the destroyer Duchess was lost in a collision in fog with the battleship Barham

    HMS Barham Association
     
  4. La-de-da-Gunner Graham

    La-de-da-Gunner Graham Senior Member

    Remembering today:
    George Wilkie
    Leading Seaman C/JX125375
    Royal Navy, HMS Duchess
    Died: 12/12/1939
    Commemorated: Chatham Naval Memorial
    Son of George and Catherine Arm Wilkie, of Moseley, Birmingham.

    :poppy: Remembered with honour.
     

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